Police warn no hiding place for drug dealers here

Containers of drugs and packaging used to ship deliveries in Gregory King's Wetherby lock-up.

Published:00:20Thursday 08 September 2016

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I would like to start this month’s update by reminding people that contrary to a popular belief Wetherby Police Station is open.

The station is operational 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.

I mention this again as recently a member of the local community attempted to convince me that “we didn’t have these problems when the police station was open”.

It would appear that since the public enquiry counter facility was withdrawn from the station’s services some years ago, people have wrongly made the assumption the station is closed.

There are means of making contact with officers at the station if you attend.

There is a yellow phone situated outside the station entrance which connects directly with our call centre once picked up.

The neighbourhood officers for Wetherby and the villages are based at the station and also what are termed within the police as response officers who will deal with more immediate situations as the calls for service come in.

This past week also saw Wetherby Police Station used as our command centre for the recent Leeds Festival event at Bramham Park.

Although the weather for two of the four days was atrocious, it did not appear to dampen the spirits of the festival goers.

The festival clearly has an impact on local communities surrounding Bramham Park with such a large influx of visitors.

However, what I would say is that we do not see an impact in recorded crime figures within those communities at festival time.

There are Wetherby officers dedicated to ongoing reassurance village patrols which take place over the festival period.

These officers were supported by our road traffic police colleagues, special constables and our off road motorcyclists.